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Oh my Lord, my 2.8ghz just murdered my 3ghz octo
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Loaded Quad MP $ = Base Octo MP $ Right Now Probably
These performance details are still unknown to most of the general public.
My hunch is you can probably still sell a loaded Quad 2.66 for not much less than the cost of a base 2.8 Octo. Surely your wife won't object to that will she?I'm tempted to get one of these in place of my 2.66 quad. I bet my wife wouldn't even notice if I swapped them in the middle of the night
First I have to line up a buyer for my old machine who will be willing to come to my house between 2 and 4 am. Mac Pros are just too damn big to hide around the house for long
These performance details are still unknown to most of the general public.
Handbrake numbers
Just to let some people know, I've got the 8 core - 2.8 mac pro (stock configuration) and its averaging about 110 fps on the ipod high-rez settings (H.264) coming from a dvd movie. Thats while I'm browsing the internet. Its using around 600% of the processor. Its simply amazing!
Just to let some people know, I've got the 8 core - 2.8 mac pro (stock configuration) and its averaging about 110 fps on the ipod high-rez settings (H.264) coming from a dvd movie. Thats while I'm browsing the internet. Its using around 600% of the processor. Its simply amazing!
- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!
Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.[/QUOTE]
I hate you... not really, but darn these are hot! I makes me even greener in the face to have bought the 2.66 in December ....
BTW, what is your GPU in the 2.66 old system?
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!
Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.[/QUOTE]
I hate you...
not really, but darn these are hot! I makes me even greener in the face to have bought the 2.66 in December .... BTW, what is your GPU in the 2.66 old system?
I got my new 8-core 2.8GHz this weekend. I added an additional 2GB of RAM (eek - bought it from Apple, so I paid a premium) but other than that, it is the base model. I ran XBench on it and the stock hard drive and thought I'd share my results. I absolutely LOVE this machine!!!!! It converts a 2 hour divx movie to Apple TV with VisualHub in 12 minutes!!!!
Here are the XBench results:
Here are the XBench results:
Code:
Results 168.96
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.1 (9B2117)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type WDC WD3200AAJS-41VWA0
CPU Test 167.36
GCD Loop 320.11 16.87 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 161.17 3.83 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 118.21 3.90 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 163.62 28.49 Mops/sec
Thread Test 598.42
Computation 565.36 11.45 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 635.59 27.34 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 205.19
System 290.54
Allocate 354.15 1.30 Malloc/sec
Fill 239.53 11646.68 MB/sec
Copy 300.57 6208.19 MB/sec
Stream 158.59 a
Copy 159.42 3292.80 MB/sec
Scale 161.16 3329.56 MB/sec
Add 157.11 3346.80 MB/sec
Triad 156.77 3353.60 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 191.07
Line 182.21 12.13 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 226.30 67.56 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 184.50 15.04 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 190.58 4.81 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 178.78 11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 217.84
Spinning Squares 217.84 276.35 frames/sec
Disk Test 75.94
Sequential 111.31
Uncached Write 111.47 68.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 114.52 64.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 97.54 28.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 125.33 62.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 57.63
Uncached Write 22.66 2.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 129.62 41.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.40 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 143.60 26.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]
I just can't wait to come back here in 10 years and laugh at how long it took to encode movies.
Or marvel at the fact that at one time, the studios even allowed us to "own" one.
Probably the later
My hunch is you can probably still sell a loaded Quad 2.66 for not much less than the cost of a base 2.8 Octo. Surely your wife won't object to that will she?
These performance details are still unknown to most of the general public.
Good point, especially if you have an older 8 core Mac Pro. Many buyers wouldn't know about the difference between an 07 Octo and an 08 Octo. The fact the case is the same helps this.
So I got my ram today. Now have 10gb in the mac pro. It is definitely feeling faster. Surfing the web is without a doubt snappier BUT I ran the same encoding test with the new ram and guess what. SAME exact time. Interesting. I guess its not a ram intensive process to encode video. I would not have thought so.